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Brian Moore and Adoption

Biography

Moore has been capped 63 times for England - more than any other player, and has been captain. He is also a successful London solicitor.

His birth mother was an unmarried teacher and his birth father a dentist. He was adopted as a baby. His adoptive family has two born-to children and four who were adopted.

He has always known he was adopted and in 1994 he traced and met his birth mother and brother.

References

Moore, Brian. Brian Moore: The Autobiography. 3rd edition. (London: Corgi, 1996)